Sentence examples for flying a sign from inspiring English sources

But I got one by flying a sign in Seattle.

They made $170 in a single day sitting in the Walmart parking lot "flying a sign".

"We ought to tax them!" The practice is often called "flying a sign".

Stoops and Esman say flying a sign is not so much a trend as much as it is the new face of an age-old institution: begging.

ACLU of Colorado client Shawn Hardman found that out the hard way when he was jailed for nearly three months by the Colorado Springs Municipal Court for panhandling - "flying a sign" asking people for help.

"If someone appears to be young and able, but is still flying a sign, my assumption is that they are in need," says Stoops, from the National Coalition for the Homeless.

Today, Mr. Landon's home is bursting with objects bearing the famous Flying A: signs, gas pumps (which can easily cost four figures), gas-pump globes (ditto), display racks, oil cans, maps and a big, round, nicely crafted stained-glass Flying A window from a station that once stood at Market and Sanchez Streets in San Francisco.

I flew a sign to escape harrowing conditions in Oregon and I arrived in Seattle with nothing.

When the Hachette dispute flared up, I "flew a sign," street parlance for panhandling with a piece of cardboard: "I was an order picker at amazon.com.

On the south side of Hollywood and Bronson, the bus stop serves as an all-day gathering place, where a 22-year-old who calls himself Lone Ranger can rest before heading to an offramp to "fly a sign" that reads "Vision of a Taco".

On 10 May 1972, Lieutenant Randy "Duke" Cunningham and Lieutenant (junior grade) William P. Driscoll flying an F-4J, call sign "Showtime 100", shot down three MiG-17s to become the first American flying aces of the war.